[129] Remains, ii. 163.
“Of Vertu also the souerayne enterlude.”
Garlande of Laurell, vol. i. 408.
“His commedy, Achademios callyd by name.”
Id. p. 409.
[132] See Appendix II. to this Memoir.—Mr. Collier is mistaken in supposing Skelton’s “paiauntis that were played in Ioyows Garde” to have been dramatic compositions: see Notes, vol. ii. 330.
[133] A writer, of whose stupendous ignorance a specimen has been already cited (p. xxx, note 3), informs us that Magnyfycence “is one of the dullest plays in our language.” Eminent Lit. and Scient. Men of Great Britain, &c. (Lardner’s Cyclop.), i. 281.
[134] See Appendix III. to this Memoir, and Poems attributed to Skelton, vol. ii. 385.